Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police had been alerted about a man said to be in a depressed state who was reported missing from the Carousel Hostel , Marton Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 2 | She was carried screaming from the siege house , where she lives with her parents . |
| 3 | If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament . |
| 4 | A major source of opposition to the return of Rawlings to power was expected to come from the Nkrumahist parties . |
| 5 | Another grandmother , while ‘ an unwearying entertainer ’ to her grandson , ‘ a familiar friend , ever kind — too indulgent ’ , was a less welcome guest to his parents , for whom her presence was ‘ not an altogether blessed arrangement ’ , and she was expected to retreat from the parlour to her own room upstairs well before the master of the house returned from work . |
| 6 | There was to be no self-dramatisation and nothing that would set Amnesty International apart from the very people that it was seeking to protect from the same potential threat . |
| 7 | This is because the need to reform was felt to arise from the normal attitude of aristocrats in the Germanic world that churches which they had helped to establish were a part of their material property . |
| 8 | During the thrilling 3–3 draw between Arsenal and Nottingham Forest , Mr Clough was seen to emerge from the Forest dug-out and engage one of the linesmen in animated conversation . |
| 9 | Later she was seen phoning from the office . |
| 10 | Witnesses said a man wearing a long , dark coat was seen running from the Willenhall Shopping Centre in Coventry . |
| 11 | He was seen emerging from the Foreign Office a short distance behind the Queen after his ministerial colleagues had taken up their positions beside the Cenotaph . |
| 12 | In many of the cases brought against experts , where full arbitral status did not seem appropriate , the expert 's immunity was said to derive from the fact that the expert 's status was that of a " quasi-arbitrator " , or that the expert was " in the position of an arbitrator " , or that an expert was " in the nature of an arbitrator " . |
| 13 | While these features of the proposed legislation were foreshadowed in earlier government papers and initiatives it is worth exploring why it was decided to break from the practice of national consensus seeking through discussion and persuasion and to introduce legislation . |
| 14 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 15 | When Clifford Smyth was persuaded to resign from the DUP , he also felt obliged to leave the Free Presbyterian Church , not because the leadership of the Church suggested it , but because he felt a tension between himself and other congregation members who had previously been political colleagues . |
| 16 | The only possibility is that information from the context was used to eliminate from the cohort items which were inconsistent with the preceding context . |
| 17 | This unbelievable sensation hit me , like I was going to explode from the inside out . |
| 18 | ‘ How futile to announce that some great lead to thought was going to emerge from the mountain of memoranda discussed at high pressure by exhausted delegates . ’ |
| 19 | I knew I had to do something or I was going to crack from the fear . |
| 20 | Mm there 's the Bare Naked Ladies er they come from Canada they are a brilliant group I think they 're brilliant I do n't care I like them and that 's called er Be My Yoko Ono I was going to go from the Bare Naked Ladies it was all planned I was going to go and say Mary Whitehouse how are you today and she was there er un unfortunately we 've we called this is serious . |
| 21 | He was thought to come from the Newcastle area . |
| 22 | In the virtual absence of effective external constraints , one of the most formative influences on the way this discretionary power was exercised came from the ideological framework within which all sentencers operate . |
| 23 | At every step I was told not to do it because I was bound to suffer from the kind of prejudice I was always talking about . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's gone wrong ? ’ he said , looking from Lucy to the rising commotion that was beginning to emerge from the restaurant behind her . |
| 25 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 26 | I was beginning to understand from the people I had encoun-tered in Reine that it was a drama still running , and likely to continue to run . |
| 27 | Her head was beginning to throb from the smoky , claustrophobic atmosphere , and she wondered how she could tactfully drop a few hints about leaving without inviting a tirade of displeasure from André , which was the last thing she felt she could cope with . |
| 28 | At least a little more flexibility was beginning to emanate from the British Foreign Office over the question of the Suez base . |
| 29 | Prime Minister Charles Haughey dismissed Lenihan as Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister on Oct. 31 under pressure from Fianna Fáil 's junior coalition partner , the Progressive Democrats , which was threatening to withdraw from the government and provoke another general election . |
| 30 | Nicholas , although his chest was threatening to burst from the pounding within , was sadly well studied in the art of disguising his true feelings . |